Biography

Isaac Moriwake is the Managing Attorney of the Mid-Pacific Office of Earthjustice, a non-profit, public-interest law firm working on environmental and energy cases across the nation, with almost 40 years of serving the community in Hawai‘i and the greater Pacific. His legal practice of 25 years includes litigation and advocacy before state and federal courts and agencies on a range of issues including water, climate and clean energy, and environmental justice. Notable cases he’s handled include the Nā Wai ‘Ehā case to restore stream flows and water rights on Maui and the Navahine youth climate case to decarbonize the state transportation system, both of which featured constitutional environmental rights. He graduated from Pomona College and University of Hawai‘i Richardson Law School with an Environmental Law Certificate. After law school, he clerked for Justice Paula A. Nakayama of the Hawai‘i Supreme Court.